[ANNOUNCEMENT] Translation2-2.0.0beta7 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package Translation2-2.0.0beta7 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- - added some options to the DefaultText decoration, now it is more customizable (thanks to Rolf 'Red' Ochsenbein) - added a __clone() method to clone the internal object references (bug #3641, patch by Olivier Guilyardi) - Some fixes to the XML container, many thanks to Olivier Guilyardi: * fixed bug #3408: empty data sets were not correctly handled; * fixed bug #3420: get a shared file lock instead of an exclusive one; * fixed bug #3498: saveData() is not registered multiple times as shutdown function anymore; optimized saving when save_on_shutdown is set to false. - added blank_on_missing option to the gettext container, which makes it behave like the other containers and automatically disables native mode; * see bug #4002 - fixed bug #4476: gettext container not working without the gettext extension (thanks to sergey at pushok dot com) - added setContainerOptions() method to alter some container options after the object instantiation (bug #2508) - some minor fixes Package Info ------------- This class provides an easy way to retrieve all the strings for a multilingual site from a data source (i.e. db). The following containers are provided, more will follow: - PEAR::DB - PEAR::MDB - PEAR::MDB2 - gettext - XML - PEAR::DB_DataObject (experimental) It is designed to reduce the number of queries to the db, caching the results when possible. An Admin class is provided to easily manage translations (add/remove a language, add/remove a string). Currently, the following decorators are provided: - CacheLiteFunction (for file-based caching) - CacheMemory (for memory-based caching) - DefaultText (to replace empty strings with their keys) - ErrorText (to replace empty strings with a custom error text) - Iconv (to switch from/to different encodings) - Lang (resort to fallback languages for empty strings) - SpecialChars (replace html entities with their hex codes) - UTF-8 (to convert UTF-8 strings to ISO-8859-1) Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Translation2 Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Translation2/download/2.0.0beta7 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/Translation2-2.0.0beta7.tgz Authors ------------- Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> (lead) Ian Eure (developer) Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> (developer)